Constructing common ground and re-creating differences between profesional and indigenous communities in the Andes”

Abstract:

Multi‐actor initiatives aiming at environmental sustainability and social equity, face complex tensions between institutionalized decision‐makers, backed up by expert knowledge, and communities with locally embedded knowledge and interests. Despite the importance given to community participation, successful experiences are limited in number, scope and duration. Experts are confronted with the paradox that they exclude local communities with the strategies and languages they use to include them. This study is based on the long‐term experiences of the authors with a multi‐actor initiative in southern Ecuador on sustainable rural drinking water management. They were involved as action‐researchers, facilitating multiparty interactions and supporting reflective practice among the participants. The article shows how multiparty processes construct identities, workforms, structures and activities that cross the …

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2004

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